The Flat Earth model is an archaic belief that the Earth's shape is a plane or disk.

Adherents of gas emission have carried that belief to motorcycles, bicycles and " sports " cars, while all other disk brake users from the same automotive companies have no holes through the faces of their discs, although internal radial air passages are used.

" Despite the common recurrence of depressions, classical liberalism remained the orthodox belief among American businessmen until the Great Depression.

According to South American mythology the belief of the Brazilian Indians, who live alongside the Parima River in Brazil, claim that their forefathers emerged in ancient times from an underground land, and that many of their ancestors still remained inside the earth.

Despite the Soviets ' possession of Hitler's remains, Stalin did not believe that his old nemesis was actually dead, a belief that remained for years after the war.

In its origin it was an allusion to the Jewish belief that God remained actively working in the Universe even after its creation and does not necessarily mean soul creation.

Historians have identified this place as Saketa, a key Buddhist centre during the 5th century BCE ( it is a widely held belief that Buddha visited Ayodhya on several occasions ) which it remained till the 5th century CE.

However, as Ruge remained a Young Hegelian in his belief, Marx and Ruge soon split and Ruge left the Deutsch-französische Jahrbücher Nonetheless, following the split, Marx remained friendly enough with Ruge that he sent Ruge a warning on January 15, 1845 that the Paris police were going to execute orders against Marx, Ruge and others at the Deutshe-französische Jahrbücher requiring all to leave Paris within 24 hours.

Kessler states that: " Although it is clear that belief in some form of original sin did exist in Judaism, it did not become mainstream teaching, nor dogmatically fixed ," but remained at the margins of Judaism.

When the case studies were shown to be fictional, subjects ' belief in a link diminished, but around half of the original effect remained.

One reason for the continued popularity of bloodletting ( and purging ) was that, while anatomical knowledge, surgical and diagnostic skills increased tremendously in Europe from the 17th century, the key to curing disease remained elusive, and the underlying belief was that it was better to give any treatment than nothing at all.

Asides from a few attempts to, supported with pro-absolutist factions among the nobility reclaim the absolute monarchy held by former predecessors he remained a mere constitutional figurehead until his death, by popular belief attributed to a heavy consumption of semlas.

This belief, coupled with the lure of the advantages of the tutorial system and the fact that the Baptist Church remained the only Free Church denomination without a college in one of the ancient universities, led Wheeler Robinson to decide to relocate the College to Oxford.

The population, largely made up of Arabian nomads and Nabateans, remained largely tribal and independent of Roman rule, with an animist belief system.

In Roman Catholic and Eastern and Oriental Orthodox faith, the virgin birth is subsumed by the doctrine that Mary remained a virgin throughout her life, a belief first documented in the 2nd century.

Although the evidence for ghosts is largely anecdotal, the belief in ghosts throughout history has remained widespread and persistent.

In later life, he remained a humble and modest man, apolitical and happy with his luck in life, and held close the belief that, " men should not puff themselves up with pride, whether they are emperors adding this or that province to their empires or painter who gain a reputation.

He believed that the Christian Church had not yet presented " its final or its most perfect aspect to the world "; that " the belief of each successive age of Christendom had as a matter of fact varied enormously from the belief of its predecessor "; that " all confessions and similar documents are, if taken as final expressions of absolute truth, misleading "; and that " there still remained, behind all the controversies of the past, a higher Christianity which neither assailants nor defenders had fully exhausted.

Contrary to popular belief, Moran managed to keep control of his territory and what remained of his gang through the end of Prohibition and through the early 1930s.

" In part, this failure reflected the belief of many in Washington ," writes historian John Lewis Gaddis, " that only the prospect of an undifferentiated global threat could shake Americans out of their isolationist tendencies that remained latent among them.

She herself, however, never became a Christian, but remained a devout Buddhist with influences from shamanism and Confucianism ; her religious beliefs would become the model, indirectly, for those of many modern Koreans, who share her belief in pluralism and religious tolerance.

Throughout his life he remained a strong believer in the supernatural, and this belief seems to inform important elements of his literature and scholarship such as his most famous work, a collection of ghost stories titled Tales of Moonlight and Rain.

The Calusa remained committed to their belief system despite Spanish attempts to convert them to Catholicism.

Although its subordinate standard remained, ministers and elders were asked to state their belief in ‘ the doctrine of this Church, set forth in the Confession of Faith ’.

In western Europe Arianism, which had been taught by Ulfilas, the Arian missionary to the Germanic tribes, was dominant among the Goths and Lombards ( and, significantly for the late Empire, the Vandals ); but it ceased to be the mainstream belief by the 8th century.

In that way, both " myth " and " folklore " have become catch-all terms for all figurative narratives which do not correspond with the dominant belief structure.

These actions were “ justified by a dominant belief among British colonial officials that land occupied by Native people was not being used efficiently and productively .”

" George Cotkin asserts Kierkegaard was against " the standardization and levelling of belief, both spiritual and political, in the nineteenth century he opposed tendencies in mass culture to reduce the individual to a cipher of conformity and deference to the dominant opinion.

Whereas this belief was only one of many beliefs held about the World to Come in Second Temple Judaism, and was notably rejected by the Sadducees, this belief became dominant within Early Christianity and soon included an insistence on the resurrection of the flesh, against gnostic teachings that flesh was evil.

The dominant religious belief in China during the reign of the Qin, and, in fact, during much of early imperial China, was focused on the shen ( roughly translating to " spirits "), yin (" shadows "), and the realm they were said to live in.

Morality plays are the result of the dominant belief of the time period, that humans had a certain amount of control over their post-death fate while they were on earth.

Although the dominant strain in Judaism is that God is personal, there is an " alternate stream of tradition exemplified by ... Maimonides ," who, along with several other Jewish philosophers, rejected the idea of a personal God, a reflecting of his belief in negative theology, the idea that God can only be described by what God is not.

Marxism criticized the belief in eternal " laws of economics ", which it considered a product of the dominant ideology.

Others argue that belief in the ' absence ' of culture in NZ is a symptom of white privilege, allowing members of a dominant group to see their culture as ' normal ' or ' default ', rather than as a specific position of relative advantage.

A major issue in the study of secularization is the extent to which certain trends such as decreased attendance at places of worship indicate a decrease in religiosity or simply a privatization of religious belief, where religious beliefs no longer play a dominant role in public life or in other aspects of decision-making.

Because pellagra outbreaks occurred in regions where maize was a dominant food crop, the belief for centuries was that the maize either carried a toxic substance or was a carrier of disease.

There are very few, if any, people on the island who still subscribe to this religion, because of the many Westernizing influences on Nauruan lifestyle and the dominant belief of Christianity.

The belief system has absorbed the values of the dominant culture in a functional and creative way so that, in the name of life, complex processes of syncretism and cultural appropriation take place.

The car-free movement is a broad, informal, emergent network of individuals and organizations including social activists, urban planners and others brought together by a shared belief that cars are too dominant in most modern cities.

The belief that the terroir is the dominant influence in the wine is the basis behind French wine labels emphasizing the region, vineyard, or AOC more prominently than the varietal of grape, and often more prominently than the producer.

One of the features of humanity that the show does highlight, and to some degree contrast with the alien civilizations ( with the possible exception of the Narn who are also noted as having an extensive selection of religious beliefs ), is the existence of a large number of religions, none of which can claim to be the dominant belief system.

Ultimately, however, the king accepted Paschasius ' assertion, and the physical presence of Christ in the Eucharist became the dominant belief in the Roman Catholic faith.

* A national champion is a large company that is dominant in its field and favored by the government of the country in which it is based in the belief that it will be in that country's interests if the company is successful in foreign markets.

Montaillou was one of the last bastions of the Albigensian belief also known as Catharism, considered heresy by the dominant Roman Catholic powers.

Colonialism brought Christianity to Igbo people which challenged and sought to change this belief, but still remains a dominant traditional belief in Igbo people.

In Europe, as John Ruskin said, and Sir Kenneth Clark confirmed, landscape painting was the " chief artistic creation of the nineteenth century ", and " the dominant art ", with the result that in the following period people were " apt to assume that the appreciation of natural beauty and the painting of landscape is a normal and enduring part of our spiritual activity " In Clark's analysis, underlying European ways to convert the complexity of landscape to an idea were four fundamental approaches: the acceptance of descriptive symbols, a curiosity about the facts of nature, the creation of fantasy to allay deep-rooted fears of nature, and the belief in a Golden Age of harmony and order, which might be retrieved.